Chaeles wittenberg



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES \VITTENBERG, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO EDIVARD Cr. CORNELIUS, OF SAME PLACE.

TELEPHONE-REGISTER.

BPECIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,743, dated January 11, 1887.

Application filed April 19, IBFG. Serial No.199,362. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: the telephone-receiver J ,and rising automatic- Be it known that 1, CHARLES \VI'LTENBERG, ally when the receiver is removed. a citizen of the United States, residing at In- The electro-magnet Dis placed in an electric dianapolis, in the county of Marion and State circnit,represcnted by the battery L and wires of Indiana, have invented a new and useful 9 and h, having a pair of disconnected ternii- Improvement in Telephoneltegisters,of which nals, m and n, arranged opposite each other on the following isaspeciiication. the telephone-case, so as to closely embrace My invention relates to an improved means between them the switch-lever and receiveri'or registering the number of times that a telesupport I when in its raised position, as shown 10 phone apparatus is used, for the purpose of in Fig. 3. The electro-magnet II is arranged 6c assessing tolls thereon. in the branch electric circuit or line-circuit, in The objects of my improvement are, first, to which the telephone apparatus is situated,and operate a registering mechanism by means of the arrangement and tension of spring 1) is such an electric circuit which is closed automaticthat the ordinary current passing through the '15 ally each time the telephone is used; and, sec line is not of suiiicient strength to cause the 0nd, to provide a second registering device magnet H to move the leverf; but when an to be used in connection with the first, but additional or extra impulse is sent through adapted to be operated by a different electric said line, as from a strong supplemental bat circuit directly fromthe central telephone-statery, the lever is then drawn down to the mag- 20 tion for the purpose of recording credits to net, and the register thereby carriedforward the telephone user, all as hereinafter fully 6X- one point.

plained. The operation of my device is as follows The accompanying drawings illustrate my WVhenthetelephone-receiver J is removcdfrom invention. the lever I,the.upward movement of said lever 25 Figure 1 represents my registering device in brings it between and in contact with both of perspective,showing its connection with a telethe terminals on and a, and the lever being a phone apparatus. Fig. 2 is a partial section, good conductor, the electric circuit in which on a larger scale, showing the means for operthe magnet Disincludedisthereby completed,

I ating the register. Fig. 3is a partial side eleand the magnet becoming energized lever c is 30 vation of the telephone apparatus, showing drawn downward and the register B carried 83 the means for closing the electric circuit which forward one point. When the receiver is again operates the register. placed on its supporting-lever, the current A represents a closed case from which the through D is broken, and lever cis returned to front wall has been removed. its normal position by the spring. This regis- 3 5 B represents a register of some well-known ter represents the debtor side of the account 8 5 form, as a series of disks bearing numerals on between the user of the telephone apparatus their peripheries and arranged to be operated and the exchange. In case the exchange or successively by a single actuating-lever, 0. central station cannot make the connection de Said. lever forms also an armature for the elecsired,the user of the telephone is so informed, v

4.0 tro-magnetD, and is suspended above the magand the operator at the central station then net by a spring, 0. sends an electric impulse through the line-cir- E represents a second register of some wellcnit, which energizes the magnet I-I sufficiently known form, as a disk having on its face aseto overcome spring 12 and bring down leverf, ries of numerals and arranged to be turned by which is returned to its normal position by the 45 an actuating-lever, f. Said lever also forms spring when said impulse has ceased, thereby an armature for the electro-niagnet H,- and is moving the register E forward one point. suspended above the magnet by a spring, 1). In making up a statement of tolls due for the 1 represents the well-known automatic teleuse of the tcleph0ne,the user is debited with the phone switch-lever, which has ashort vertical points shown on register B and credited with go movement, being held down by the weight of the points shown on register E.

T laim as my invention 1 The combination of a telephone apparat s, an electro-magnet arranged in an independent electric circuit, said electric circuit having a pair of normally-disconneeted terminals attached to said telephone apparatus, a register having an actuating-lever arranged to form an armature for theelectro-magnet, and a lever forming a partofthe telephoneapparatus and arranged to electrically connect said terminals, all arranged to cooperate substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, at a subscriber's station, with a telephone, ofan clectro-magnet arranged in the line-circuit with which said telephone is connected, and a register having an actuating-lever arranged to form an armature for said magnet, whereby the operator at a central station may make a record at the subscribl ers station, substantially as and for the purpose I specified.

, CHARLES WITTENBERG.

Witnesses:

H. P. Hoop, C. M. Hoo 

